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title: ‘This evening at sunset go to yonder pear-tree which you see growing… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘This evening at sunset go to yonder pear-tree which you see growing at the cross roads. Who acts: evening, you, pear tree. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 14

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‘This evening at sunset go to yonder pear-tree which you see growing at the cross roads.

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**Who acts:** evening, you, pear tree · **What happens:** go, see, grow · **To what, where:** pear tree, cross roads

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, you, pear tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:23:14
# text = ‘This evening at sunset go to yonder pear-tree which you see growing at the cross roads.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | this evening at sunset |  |  | pear tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | pear tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | pear tree *not said here* |  |  | the cross roads |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at road=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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